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Canon 5D Mark III Experience PREVIEW of: Canon 5D Mark III Experience The Still Photography Guide to Operation and Image Creation With the Canon EOS 5D Mark III by Douglas J. Klostermann Full Stop. good writing for better photography 1
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Canon 5D Mark III Experience All rights reserved. This e-book is licensed for your personal enjoyment only and may not be re- sold, file-shared, or given away. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronically or in print, without expressed permission from the author. Every effort has been made to make this e-book as accurate as possible, but no warranty of fitness is implied. The information is provided on an as-is basis. The auth
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Canon 5D Mark III Experience CONTENTS 1. INTRODUCTION............................................................................................... 5 1.1 Take Control of Your Camera .................................................................................6 1.2 Using This Guide .....................................................................................................7 1.3 Quick Start for 5D and 5D Mark II Users............................................................
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Canon 5D Mark III Experience 8. EXPOSURE Part 2 ....................................................................................... 135 8.1 Exposure Lock.....................................................................................................135 8.2 Histograms...........................................................................................................136 8.3 Exposure Compensation .................................................................................
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Canon 5D Mark III Experience 1. INTRODUCTION With the introduction of the long awaited and highly anticipated EOS 5D Mark III, Canon has improved upon the revolutionary and highly popular 5D Mark II, itself a versatile and rugged digital SLR admired and relied upon by photographers ranging from enthusiasts to professionals. Now with a 22.3 megapixel full-frame sensor, new highly customizable 61 point autofocus system, faster 6 frames per second continuous shooting speed, improved 63-zo
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Canon 5D Mark III Experience to confidently use the ones that turn your Canon 5D Mk III into an image capturing tool that works best for you and the photographic situations you work in. 1.1 Take Control of Your Camera Since the camera is a tool to take the images you want to take, you obviously can’t always allow the camera to make decisions for you. You have to take control of the camera to ensure that you capture exactly the images you intend - by autofocusing precisely where you wan
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Canon 5D Mark III Experience Taking control of all of these functions will enable you to consistently create the dramatic and compelling images you envision. Learning to use and get the most out of a highly advanced digital SLR (dSLR) camera like the 5D Mk III takes time, practice, patience, mistakes, and experimentation. If you have upgraded from an older dSLR such as a the original 5D or 5D Mk II, an EOS 60D, 7D or one of their predecessors, or from a Rebel to the 5D Mk III, you are
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Canon 5D Mark III Experience 2. MENUS and CUSTOM FUNCTIONS Setting up the 5D Mk III The Menus and Custom Functions of the Canon EOS dSLR cameras allow you to have greater, more precise control over how your camera functions. They are an important part of what makes the 5D Mk III a more powerful tool than a camera such as the Canon 60D, and they allow you to customize the camera to work for you, to work how you work. I highly recommend that you dig into these menus and change the setti
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Canon 5D Mark III Experience Release - This option will prioritize shutter release, or immediately capturing the shot at the possible expense of exact focus. AF Priority - This option will prioritize focus for the shot, ensuring that the subject is in focus before the picture is taken. This may cause a brief, perhaps micro-seconds delay while the camera confirms focus before releasing the shutter. AF4 Lens Drive When AF Impossible This setting tells the camera what to do when it
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Canon 5D Mark III Experience 61 Points - All 61 AF points are available to manually select. This is obviously a lot of AF Points to click across to reach your desired AF Point, but it can be relatively quickly done and will potentially allow you to find a point at or near your subject, thus minimizing any required recomposing of the frame before taking the shot. The 61 Points setting should be taken advantage of for shooting action situations and tracking moving subjects. Use it in co
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Canon 5D Mark III Experience With certain lenses (listed in the Canon manual as groups F to H on pages 83-84) the number of available AF points from which to manually select will be fewer. Also note that with the settings that limit the number of points to less than 61 Points, the AF Point Expansion and Zone AF Autofocus Area Modes will still function and take advantage of all 61 points. You may find that a combination of fewer AF Points (41 or 15) combined with an AF Point Expansion A
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Canon 5D Mark III Experience 2.5 Custom Functions Menu C.Fn I: Exposure Figure 43 - Custom Function 1: Exposure menu. Exposure Level Increments This is to change the increments of shutter speed, aperture, and exposure compensation - 1/2 stop increments or 1/3 stop. This setting will also apply to Auto Exposure Bracketing (AEB) and Flash Exposure Compensation. Set this depending on your personal preference and what you are used to using for these increments. Many photographers
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Canon 5D Mark III Experience Bracketing Sequence This setting determines the sequence of exposures when using Auto Exposure Bracketing (AEB) or White Balance Bracketing. (Remember that the 5D Mk III can bracket either 2, 3, 5, or 7 shots, not just the traditional 3 shots - number to be set with the next menu item). The bracketing sequence setting depends how you like to order your bracketing, and this may be important to you if you do a lot of HDR work. Setting “0 - +” means the “c
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Canon 5D Mark III Experience Power Switch - Located at the Mode Dial and is used to turn the camera on and off. Figure 55 - View of the rear controls of the Canon EOS 5D Mk III. On the rear of the camera (see Figure 55) you will find, starting at the upper right: AF Point Selection Button - This is pressed before pressing the M-Fn Button to change the Autofocus (AF) Area Mode. It can also be pressed to display the autofocus points in the viewfinder before manually selecting your autof
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Canon 5D Mark III Experience Shutter Button in P, Tv, Av, M, or B Shooting Mode, or else for “back button focusing” where it can be used to start, stop, or lock focus. This is discussed in the Back Button Focusing section of this text. It is also pressed to autofocus while in Live View or when shooting video. Live View / Movie Shooting Switch - This switch is used in conjunction with the Start/ Stop (START/ STOP) Button located inside it, to begin Live View shooting or Movie shooting.
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Canon 5D Mark III Experience Figures 67 - Llama Figurines - Combine precise autofocusing with shallow depth of field to call attention to the desired subject - above (Figure 66) the front figurine, and here the middle figurine. Both images: Shutter speed 1/50, aperture f/2.8, ISO 2000. Remember that you activated all the available AF Area Selection Modes using the AF4 menu > Select AF area selection mode. To select a specific AF Area Selection Mode while shooting, turn the shootin
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Canon 5D Mark III Experience used and selected and whether or not they will act as cross-type AF Points. Also, the AF Points that you see blinking in the viewfinder indicate the non-cross-type, less accurate AF Points that are sensitive only to horizontal lines. 4.3a Single-Point AF (Manual Selection) Although Spot AF is listed first in the camera’s menu, I am starting with Single-Point AF in order to best explain them. Single-Point AF Autofocus Area Mode allows you to select a single
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Canon 5D Mark III Experience 4.3b Spot AF (Manual Selection) If you need to focus on a precise area that is smaller than the Single-Point AF area, you can make use of Spot AF. This will not necessarily make your focusing more accurate in general situations just because it is smaller, but rather it is used to address specific autofocusing challenges. For example if you wish to focus between the parts of a fence or cage to a subject beyond, you may find that Single-Point AF searches back
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Canon 5D Mark III Experience Figure 102 - Multiple Exposure Mode menu to set up the parameters and processing options of in-camera Multiple Exposure shooting and image results. The multiple exposures can be processed in several different ways to achieve the final single-image result, using Multi-expos ctrl. Additive setting is most similar to shooting multiple exposures with film, where the total exposure is the cumulative exposure of each of the individual frames - in other words, th
